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riflemen and put into storage the superior
The major’s arm was useless thereafter and while he was recuperating Sir William Howe jealously took advantage of his disability, disbanded Ferguson’s riflemen, and put into storage the superior rifles which they had carried.
— from Rifles and Riflemen at the Battle of Kings Mountain by United States. National Park Service

room and put in some temporary seats
Mr. Jones said to the young men, if they would get one coat of plastering put onto that room, and put in some temporary seats made of slabs, they could have the use of it for a school room.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

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